The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Nevada’s Green Party seeking to include presidential candidate Jill Stein on the ballot in the battleground state.
The court’s order Friday, without any noted dissents, allows ballot preparation and printing to proceed in Nevada without Stein and other Green Party candidates included.
The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot in a state with a history of extremely close statewide races. In 2020, President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by fewer than 35,000 votes in the state.
The petition forms were faulty. Be nice if we were told what was wrong with them
Nevada uses two forms for gathering signatures, one for candidates and another for ballot initiatives. The Secretary of State gave the Green Party the wrong form. The forms are basically identical.
It is not the first time Democrats has used dubious methods to deprive Green Party ballot access.
So the party that wants to have the responsibility of running the most powerful nation in the world didn’t double check the title of the paperwork they submitted?
This isn’t a normal person getting the wrong tax form in the mail and not noticing it. This is an entire party with nationwide offices and tons of people supporting it failing to recognize they were filling out the wrong form.
The more important question is, “when did they submit the paperwork and when were they notified that the paperwork was incorrect?” If the gap is really small, then they should have filed sooner. If the gap was really long, then maybe there was some fuckery going on.
EDIT - That said, I still hate when minor technicalities thwart important things.
I’m glad she’s not on the ballot. But I don’t like these bad faith technicalities. Although I do put 90% of the blame on the enforcers.
We just had a ballot initiative in Arkansas fall off because they were told the wrong thing by officials. And even then, they did all the things they were supposed to do (similar to this situation).
They didn’t file the correct paperwork. They are not a victim here. They are ducking adults representing a ducking national party. You check the forms and make sure they are correct before you file them.
This is not hard. Every adult does it multiple times every year for all sorts of reasons. It’s a basic citizenship skill.
The fact that you can mess this up AND REFUSE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT like a ducking toddler makes it very clear they are not a serious political party.
You’re an adult you can fucking swear.
They were given the wrong forms when they requested the correct ones - the two forms are nearly I distinguishable and neither the issuer nor collector noticed the mistake at the time.
This was a really minor bureaucratic screw up and denying the green party a place on the ballot because of the mistake is just a bad look.
Every legal form has a form number. Anyone practicing law should know what number they require and verify if it’s incorrect. Her legal team shit the bed
Yes. The GP said all of that. The thing is, none of it matters. It’s the responsibility of the submitter to submit the correct forms. It’s bureaucracy 101.
Also, of course the forms are similar. They are from the same agency for a similar purpose. But details matter in this business.
Good thing we don’t expect a president and their staff to be able to pay attention to detail.
Given the news currently brewing in Georgia we can expect some similar bureaucratic bullshit to be used against the Harris campaign - it’ll be bullshit just like this is bullshit.
You know these people have lawyers, right? It’s literally a lawyer’s job to go over these documents with a fine-toothed comb specifically due to these sort of things.
I don’t think running for elected office should require a team of high paid lawyers - president in our current system is unrealistic for any person off the street but part of the reason we have AOC today is because the election registration process is accessible to people who have limited resources but a lot of enthusiasm.
Forms like this shouldn’t require the fine toothed comb.
Most voters don’t have an attorney checking their mail-in ballot.
Democrats has used dubious methods
you misspelled ‘Green Party incompetence and/or procrastination’
The outcome is a victory for Democrats who had challenged the Greens’ inclusion on the ballot
Seems as fishy as Stein’s intentions.
The outcome would either be a victory for the Democrats or a victory for the Republicans. So what part is fishy?
On top of that, Nevada’s governor is a Republican.
Nah, keeping Stein on the ballot (for this reason) would be a win for our democracy. If there’s a credible case to formally accuse her of being a Russian asset and bar her from participation on those grounds I’m happy to see it go through. This is just arbitrary and authoritarian. I’m not okay with embracing authoritarianism to overcome fascism - there are better tools to beat Trump.
Someone who’s campaign doesn’t bother to read the forms they’re submitting to be included on the ballot should not be considered a serious candidate. Russian stooge or not Stein is incompetent and uncommitted to her espoused ideals.
If there’s a credible case to formally accuse her of being a Russian asset
Yea, I’m familiar with the photo - that’s why I mentioned a case to formally bar her above. That photo could lead to an absolutely valid prohibition on participating in elections - so let’s go that route instead of bureaucratic bullshit.
The Green party was represented at the Supreme Court by Jay Sekulow, a Trump ally who was part of the president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial.
Yeah sure, it’s the Democrats who are being dubious here…
It is - the wrong forms were disbursed and then rejected while all the actual requirements were fulfilled.
This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.
This is clearly anti-democratic and unlikely to have any actual effect on the election outside making Democrats look bad.
No. If it reflects negatively on anyone it would be the Nevada and US courts, the Nevada official who handed out the paperwork, and of course the Stein operation for not catching it. The last two have the capacity to catch this. Not the Democratic party.
And no one in the Green Party looked at the forms to make sure they had the right ones? How many people handled those forms without noticing they were wrong? Are they too used to Cyrillic that it’s hard to read English forms?
They did make sure, by seeking guidance from the person that runs the election.
Having read the forms necessary to get a candidate or initiative on the ballot, I can tell you they are not hard to tell apart if you actually read them. A campaign that is serious about their stated goals would do the basic work of reading the form.
I havent been able to find them forms yet, do you have links to Nevada’s?
And that is followed by
Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates, including Stein and Cornel West who offer liberal voters an alternative that could siphon away support from Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee.
Not Democratic party malfeasance.
The Secretary of State gave the Green Party the Green Party the wrong form
LMFAO at trying to blame a secretary of state for a very old and experienced political party using the wrong damn form
If you think Democrats are bad, you should see hostile foreign entities. If you can’t do your bureaucratic due diligence to double check election forms, you are absolutely not qualified to lead an entire country.
Oh dear, that’s going to make her path to an electoral college victory harder, isn’t it.
Not realistically, no. It’s just about the same amount of difficulty.
270 to win!
She has 49 other states she can fail to win in…
but still siphon enough votes to hand trump the whitehouse
I feel like she isn’t on the ballot in a large number of states. I feel like basic research would reveal this fact. I feel like she isn’t going to siphon many votes away from Harris. I know for sure that people want to be able to blame her if Harris loses.
Why can’t these candidates file proper forms? What the hell is so difficult about that?
There are a miniscule number of presidential candidates running in a given year, so I assume that the UX on the process isn’t very optimized.
but she’s done this like 3 times already.
running for president is literally all she does. she should be able to speedrun this by now.
They were given the wrong forms by the secretary of state. Its obvious sabotage.
Ha ha. After being shown the forms your face saving argument changes. Now they were the wrong forms.
I never said they werent and still no one has been able to show them to me
Except for the links you were given a while ago! 😂
You aren’t the arbiter of truth on the matter. You don’t need to see the forms. Stein is out and you can piss and moan about it all you like.
I guess not needing to see evidence is how yall get so ignorant
Because everything is always “their” fault right? Secretary of state is corrupt, judge is corrupt… Can’t just be that someone that crawls out from under her rock once every 4 years has not used the last 4 years to setup a competent organisation.
Theres a lot of ignorance here. She doesnt show up once every four years, you assume that because you only hear about her once every four years. She’s not as active, understandably, on non-election years, but is still doing political work and promoting her party and giving talks.
Yes, the secretary of state gave them the wrong forms and guidance, and the courts are banning a political party from an election on a technicality against the spirit of the law.
@DrunkEngineer explained it.
More good news on a Friday.
Sure is. Wonderful to see all the rage from the ass scratchers in these comments
More’s the pity, she can’t run for president of Russia either.
Same time next Presidential election, Jill?
That looks like a weapon.
Is it a record player needle?
It’s a campaign button. For perennial candidate Howard Stassen. He would still be running today if he hadn’t died in 2001.
The Winter Candidate.
I mean she could use the time between to build local support for the Green Party in lots of places. I guess that isn’t what she’s after.
And God forbid they spend any money on local elections where they can affect things like I don’t know actual green party issues.
Sure usually hangs out in Russia between elections, right?
lol good.
while normally I’d be upset if they were running somebody with some kind of real intent to push real issues, its clear Stein is mostly isnt interested in pushing anything but conspiracy theories and russian appeasement.
What “conspiracy theories”? Do you think that the genocide in Gaza is a conspiracy theory?
people forget about her vaccine skepticism, which is sad in a post covid world. There’s a reason she didnt run in 2020
Stein is pro-vaccine, as she has stated in numerous interviews. If she had won in 2016, we would’ve had a medical doctor in the White House during a pandemic, and hundreds of thousands of lives could’ve been saved.
she’s pro vaccine, with an asterisk.
Anti-democratic propoganda.
But if we don’t vote 3rd party then democrats will never do the exact things I want, or some shit
Yes, that latter point does describe how well you have summarized other people’s arguments. Good luck to you on that one.
Considering there is not a good argument for voting for a third party presidential candidate in this election vs. not voting at all, I don’t think the summary matters.
I’ll be voting solid blue regardless, but the “exact things I want” in regards to Democrats is not helping a genocide, because I thought that was a bar even they could pass.
I’m not surprised they failed even that, but it does radicalize me further and solidify my position that all liberals that call themselves leftists out of rampant ignorance can fuck off forever.
And that will definitely change by voting 3rd party Ina presidential election!!
I kind of wish ap would include things like this:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/092024zr_h3cj.pdf
In this case it’s almost nothing, but sometimes it’s nice to have for the longer documents. I’d also like a link to the original decision they were appealing.
And democrats applaud as an election becomes less democratic
It is not undemocratic to be barred from the ballot because your campaign did not bother reading the fine print on the paperwork to make sure it’s all correct. It’s not the level of attention to detail or responsibility I would want from a presidential administration either.
Ive yet to have anyone actually cite the forms and what specifically was overlooked. Like somewhere it just states this form not admissable for candidate qualification.
All of this is incredibly self serving arguments, you would be having quite an outrage if a democrat was barred from an election because of fine print technicality. Thats not what you actually care about, you only care that people you dont like suffered from it.
You didn’t look very hard. This took seconds:
Under Nevada law, the Green Party needed to obtain just over 10,000 valid signatures to get its candidates on the ballot for the 2024 general election. The petitions containing the signatures are also required to include an affidavit from the people who circulated the petitions.
As it came to the Supreme Court, the dispute centered on the content of that affidavit. For minor political parties seeking access to the ballot, Nevada law requires the affidavit to include an attestation that the person who circulated the petition believes that each person signing the petition is registered to vote in the county where she lives.
The affidavit originally submitted with the Green Party’s petition in July 2023 was the correct one. However, because the petition that the Green Party submitted contained a separate mistake, an employee in the secretary of state’s office sent the party a sample petition that included the wrong affidavit – for use with petitions to put initiatives and referenda on the ballot. As a result, the affidavits that the Green Party later submitted with its petitions did not contain the attestation required for access to the ballot.
The secretary of state eventually announced that the Green Party had submitted enough signatures to qualify for the 2024 general election ballot.
The Nevada Democratic Party went to state court in June of this year, arguing that the signatures were invalid because the Green Party had used the wrong affidavit.
Was it a fuckup by the Secretary of State or just a ratfuck? Yes. Does that mean the campaign shouldn’t have lacked the attention to detail to be able to avoid it? No. They didn’t bother checking to find out that everything was as it should be. And that is not who people should want running the country. If they get thrown off this easily, what will it be like when they’re negotiating things like treaties and trade agreements?
You’re the second person ive asked to cite the forms in question, who links to an article about the court case instead.
The forms, like the forms the green party allegedly received copies of that were incorrect, i am asking to see those forms.
And asking two people was easier than using a search engine?
I did search, and like these two people i was getting articles about the court case instead of the forms.
Hostility to citation just makes political discussion less informed.
Again. Seconds.
https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/home/showpublisheddocument/12729/638400602817830000
And this is the last time I’m doing your homework for you.
Why are you saying again like you found them the first time. So, this is the form the secretary of state handed out to a party asking for the form to enter an election
Do keep up.
He doesn’t want to see the forms. He just wants to be right.
I guess they don’t have to click on the link if they don’t want.
Incidentally, the language in the affidavit makes it pretty clear what it’s for.
Democrats applaud bc she is another Republican plant. They like doing that. If you want to vote for her, you still can. Democracy
No, you cant, most states including nevada do not allow write in votes.
Most states do and it sounds like you should worry about local more then federal if that’s the case.
the State of Nevada does not allow individuals to write in a candidate’s name for any office. (NRS 293.270 (2))
https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/sos-information/office-facts/faqs-all-division/elections
Per the Republican caucus they didn’t allow write-ins in Nevada. Looking at your post, those people will not help you. You should be looking for an actual candidate in your state that has a chance.
Jill Stein is not the one. She is a Putin simp. Her goal is to disrupt the Democrats chance to win. I know it sucks (I live in NC) but you need local winners for a third party. Eventually that will lead to a national third party.
Republican caucus? This is nevada state law, not party convention rules. Im talking about democracy and freedom to vote for people. You can make arguments supporting voting for your candidate or why people shouldnt vote for another. But trying to win an election by outright forbidding the ability to vote for an opponent is, sitting eerily well with people.
Sounds like the secretary of the state fucked you. Not sure when they banned write-ins ( Every state should have it.)
I still stand by my main point, third parties need to put an effort in local elections to change the laws. You never hear about them during mid-terms. They only want the presidency and that will never happen.
Funny that you could find that but not the forms 😂
Yall should be embarassed for having such anti-evidence attitudes. Its a core aspect of having informed political discussion.
More party oppression by Dems.
Yup. The “Democratic” Party.
Yes democracy is when no outside of your party can run because that’s oppressing you.
Womp womp
She seemed like a good alternative to Trump and Clinton at the time. But looking back I realize she was just put there by Putin to draw away lesser evil votes from Clinton so Trump could win. Another reason the Democratic Party fucked up by not allowing centrist or leftist candidates like Sanders even when they’d have a way better chance of winning by getting a lot of people to actually vote because they’d have a candidate they like rather than just voting against the other guy.
I really like Saunders, but big-C capitalists hate him because he actually works for the people. And that’s why he’ll never be POTUS or VP.
:/
Right and it’s why well never have a left of center candidate at all unless we get money out of politics. Which is not going to happen in the US. We’re stuck with moderate conservatives like Biden and Harris as the only option south of fascism.
Good. She can’t help Trump any more than she already has.
Jill Stein is unqualified to be president and generally has no idea what she is talking about.
